Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many girls worked in minor clerical jobs and were encouraged to learn shorthand and typing skills at evening classes . |
| 2 | The Editor is grateful for the help that was given to him by catering personnel at MOD Stanmore who supplied the photographs and RAF Uxbridge . |
| 3 | The children must have found the silence or edifying talk at table somewhat tedious , as also the prohibitions on all dancing , dicing and wrestling . |
| 4 | Scattered all over his territories were 738,000 Japanese ; in theory a defeated army but in most cases still armed and either potentially dangerous or the only organized force capable of keeping chaos at bay . |
| 5 | You need a broad level of climbing experience at home and abroad at E1 standard — the first level of extreme climbing . |
| 6 | Mad dogs , mad cyclists , mad kids hurling sticks at conker trees and forgetting that what must go up must come down , or , more likely , not caring either way . |
| 7 | Brown 's was already more than half full , but Bridget and Loretta were able to find a table in a relatively uncrowded corner where an old-fashioned ceiling fan was doing an effective job in keeping stuffiness at bay . |
| 8 | Employee relations manager George Piechniczek said : ‘ This sensitive issue has been extensively debated over the last few years and whilst the trade unions support the principle of protecting non-smokers at work , it has proved difficult to find a practical solution that satisfied all parties . ’ |
| 9 | The Electronic Industry Development Association wants the government to meet some of the cost of retraining and of keeping workers at home , under a Labour Ministry plan set up to help prevent lay-offs . |
| 10 | But d-i-y treatment will go a long way towards keeping rot at bay , and you should be prepared to give freshly exposed cut surfaces of both cladding and battens an extra coat of preservative during installation for extra protection . |
| 11 | Keeping candidiasis at bay |
| 12 | Keeping Campese at bay in a full-blooded charge for the line . |
| 13 | They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay , and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes . |
| 14 | Mr Evans was quite jolly on the day itself , cracking jokes at dinner and giving presents , a knife for Nick and a Bible for Carrie . |
| 15 | It had played no small part in tranquillizing things at home and inspiring ‘ national will to victory ’ , and that was earnestly acknowledged by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 16 | It 's keeping people at work . |
| 17 | It 's important to stress the relationship with Social Services , in that the Agency staff who link the very wide range of people from Social Services , often those people who hold local budgets and are in a position , using the funding that we have allocated to diverse things , to come up with creative solutions for , for er , keeping people at home rather than in , in institutional care . |
| 18 | I F LIVERPOOL reach the FA Cup final , by defeating Portsmouth at Villa Park tonight , the veterans of the Anfield boot room will have demonstrated yet again that a dedicated , experienced back-up team is as important to a successful football club as an inspirational manager . |
| 19 | The WTA offered hiking , rambling or climbing holidays at home and abroad , centre-based holidays by the sea , mountains or in the tourist centres of Europe . |
| 20 | All the weeks of reluctantly keeping Yanto at bay , plus having her hand on a male sexual organ for the first time in her twenty five years of life , was too much for Molly . |
| 21 | THE best medicine for keeping colds at bay is a daily dose of your favourite tipple . |
| 22 | On becoming choirmaster at south Hackney parish church ( 1872–5 ) Hunt gathered the support of leading organists in London and in 1872 set up an independent institution to provide better training for church musicians . |
| 23 | While criticising the " too tenacious traditions of a unitarian state " , he also singled out for criticism individual regional leaders whom he accused of adopting laws at variance with those of the Russian Federation ( RF ) . |
| 24 | The reason for this seems to be that the opportunity cost of keeping boys at school when they could go out to work is greater than for girls , especially for poor rural families . |
| 25 | On Friday , however , back at his natural weight , he looked sharp and crisp , and after forcing Rowe into a standing count was landing punches at will before the referee mercifully stopped the bout . |
| 26 | In an institution which prides itself on keeping politicians at arm 's length ( a rare achievement in Italy ) , Mr Dini 's contacts with the former government of Giulio Andreotti were unpopular . |
| 27 | Nor was Eastry any more successful in maintaining peace at home . |
| 28 | Politically , expressing horror at degeneracy was expedient . |
| 29 | Dataloggers ( CMG seeking info at present ) |
| 30 | Years later her increasing helplessness was causing unhappiness at home , yet there was still no one to whom she could turn : her parents had died ; her children had left her ; her sister was in Canada ; the family doctors and hospital doctors were uninterested ; and , apart from arranging adaptations to her house , social services were too overworked to be accessible . |